How Has the Work Load Changed?

Erin Andrews said in an interview with Street & Smith magazine's, Jessica Collins, that she studies more now than she ever did in college...
Okay well I am a college student currently myself and I have no desire to broaden the amount of studying that I do for things.
When asked about common misconceptions people have towards her, Andrews also responded by saying, "I think a lot of people think it’s really, really glamorous, and there are times when you are in the pouring rain or you’re running up and down the sidelines and you trip and fall, or you have to eat a hot dog just to get two seconds of nourishment in before you go grab a coach. You’re like "Ah, this is so glamorous."
Okay Erin, we get it, you life is NOT glamorous.
Former Boston Red Sox field reporter, Tina Cervasio said upon her leaving the network that, "There were many 10-12 hour days, and that was just at the ballpark. That doesn’t include waking up early, reading all the clips, calling people, setting up interviews, rewriting stuff. That all went on before I got to the ballpark."
Being a sideline reporter today clearly seems to be a burn-out type of job. Most of the blame for this I put on the amount of incredible technology that allows us to do so much at once. Unfortunately, these advances seem to be speeding ahead of us so that we almost cannot keep up. This leads my to my next question:
Was the job always this time-consuming? Perhaps it had even further requirements early on that made it more difficult for women to work as sideline reporters...

(2007 - janechastain.com)

Into the middle part of her career, Jane Chastain recalled to the ASA that she had to do her own research almost every day ("95%" of the time she said). She also mentioned that getting in person interviews was her most crucial quest as a sideline reporter. It seems obvious to me that player interviews were the heart of Chastain's work because of her inability to access something like the internet.

While it has not been discussed about how technology and the internet may have impacted the transformation of female sideline reporters (I have not found anything within my research), I can detect a distinct correlation between the emergence of young and attractive women as sideline reporters and the availability of news and information, as a result of the internet's existence.

getting in touch with my inner sports reporter,
Blog Master Nilsen